Brito, Steve; Corbacho, Ana; Rivas, Rene Osorio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is … examined using municipal-level data on the percent of household receiving remittances and homicides per 100,000 inhabitants …. Remittances are found to be associated with a decrease in homicide rates. Every 1 percent increase in the number of households …